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Winter is coming, and Vaughan is ‘snow’ prepared! The City of Vaughan provides citizens with efficient, reliable and high-level winter services – whether it’s reducing ice on roads or clearing snow from local streets, paths and sidewalks, the City’s crews strive to ensure residents and visitors can travel safely regardless of the weather.
The City’s winter maintenance program includes salting, windrow-clearing, plowing and snow removal along more than 2,000 lane-kilometres of roads and 1,000 kilometres of sidewalks throughout the city. With the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, known as the Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS), the City leverages weather forecasts, data from actual road conditions and Vaughan’s operating best practices to recommend treatment for the City’s roads and sidewalks. Since the adoption of this innovative AI technology in 2020, the City has reduced salt usage by 30 per cent and saved approximately $400,000 to date. This has had a positive impact on the environment, reflects the City’s commitment to fiscal responsibility, and enhances the citizen experience.
With a fleet of more than 100 vehicles comprised of combination salter/snowplow units, windrow machines, sidewalk machines, pickup trucks equipped with plows and salters, cul-de-sac-clearing machines and anti-icing units, staff are ready to take on the Canadian winter as soon as it arrives.
For more information on the City’s winter maintenance service levels, visit vaughan.ca/snow.
How you can do your part to get winter ready
Citizens are encouraged to help the City with winter operations by following these tips.
Throughout the winter months, the City of Vaughan is committed to ensuring the safety and well-being of citizens, implementing process efficiencies to deliver effective and efficient road maintenance and providing exceptional end-to-end citizen centred services. These objectives are part of the Operational Performance, Active, Safe and Diverse Communities and Citizen Experience priorities in the 2018-2022 Term of Council Service Excellence Strategic Plan.
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